Special Dining Room Ideas For Eid!

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oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 14:04

Dining room ideas take on a special importance when it comes to Eid decorations. The entire concept of Eid is 'feasting' after Ramzan, the holy month of fasting. Needless to say the feast will be grand and you need to prepare your dining room for it. But other than that, some unique norms of Islamic culture give us the scope to implement very interesting dining room ideas on the occasion of Eid.

So to explore your creative genius the fullest you can use these basic home decorating tips from our end.

Dining Room Ideas For Eid:

• Firstly, this is the occasion when the entire family meets so you have to have a very big set up for eating in your dinning room. Most of us live in nuclear families these days and have tables for 4 or maximum 6. So how are you going to accommodate the entire clan in it? Simple fall back on tradition when in trouble.

• Islamic traction dictates that the family must sit on the floor on carpets and dine together. So push out all the furniture in your dinning room, pull out those old dusty carpets you have rolled away in the alcoves and lay them out in interesting patterns for Eid decorations.

• You have to lay out the carpets forming blocks or shapes leaving a patch of open space in the middle where you will be laying out the food.

• The table settings for festival decoration, specially Eid in an interesting and vital part of your dining room ideas. When the whole focus is on the feast then you have to make sure you get your table right. Here is you are taking our advice and not using a table then how will you arrange food interestingly?

• In Islamic culture you are supposed to eat of the same vessel on festive occasions to increase solidarity amongst kin and kith. So you cannot use plates in your table settings.

• Your serving vessels need to be appropriately large for an Eid feast table. If you don't have such large vessels then serve one dish in 2 or 3 places. This helps even otherwise because everyone on the table will have access to all the dishes near them.

• Place big rice serving plates intermittently in your layout so that small groups of people can serve themselves on it together. That makes the eating process more organised.

• What ever is the creme della creme of your spread should occupy the position of honour in the centre of the layout. Mostly it will the Eid special Biriyani but you can also put a huge platter of kebabs heaped on each other here.

• Try to keep the basic theme green keeping with tradition. Use green curtains, cushion covers and crockery if you have it.

You have to be innovative with dining room ideas for Eid decorations to add that fresh touch of imagination to tradition.